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Saturday, February 1, 2014

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


What's behind a #1 ranking? Open-source LineUp software enables granular analysis of subjective ranking systems

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 08:08 PM PST

Behind every "Top 100" list are a generous sprinkling of personal bias and subjective decisions. Lacking the tools to calculate how factors like median home prices and crime rates actually affect the "best places to live," the public must take experts' analysis at face value.

Not so 'evil': Finance study makes case for hedging

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 10:08 AM PST

Business researchers have come up with the first scientific evidence that hedging against risk can increase a firm's value.

One planet, two stars: New research shows how circumbinary planets form

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 10:07 AM PST

Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine would have formed far from its current location in the Star Wars universe, a new study into its real world counterparts, observed by the Kepler space telescope, suggests.

Smart Notices could take us beyond copyright

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 10:07 AM PST

Dynamic Smart Notices could replace standard licencing agreements for software, online services and digital goods, according to a researchers.

Making color: When two red photons make a blue photon

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 10:05 AM PST

Can scientists generate any color of light? The answer is not really, but the invention of the laser in 1960 opened new doors for this endeavor. Scientists have now demonstrated a new semiconductor microstructure that performs frequency conversion. This design is a factor of 1000 smaller than previous devices.

New catalyst to convert greenhouse gases into chemicals

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 05:32 AM PST

Researchers have developed a highly selective catalyst capable of electrochemically converting carbon dioxide -- a greenhouse gas -- to carbon monoxide with 92 percent efficiency. The carbon monoxide then can be used to develop useful chemicals.

Diagnosis just a breath away with new laser that advances breath analysis for disease diagnosis

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 05:32 AM PST

Physics researchers have developed a new type of laser that will enable exciting new advances in areas as diverse as breath analysis for disease diagnosis and remote sensing of critical greenhouse gases.

NSA pursues quantum technology

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 06:08 PM PST

Researchers explain how the revelation that the US National Security Agency is developing quantum computers has renewed interest and sparked debate on just how far ahead they are of the world's major labs looking to develop the same technology.

Imaging technique shows brain anatomy change in women with MS, depression

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 06:07 PM PST

A multicenter research team used a new, automated technique to identify shrinkage of a mood-regulating brain structure in a large sample of women with MS who also have a certain type of depression.

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